Sport, democracy and war in classical Athens / by David M. Pritchard.
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- 9781107007338
- 796.0938
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796.0938 NEI The games at Athens : | 796.0938 NEI The games at Athens : | 796.0938 NIC Aristocracy and athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece / | 796.0938 PRI Sport, democracy and war in classical Athens / | 796.40938 MIN Mind and body: | 796.42092 KAR The road to Sparta : running in the footsteps of the original ultramarathon man / | 796.48 BER The road to Olympia : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participation in sport. The city's sportsmen continued to be drawn from the elite, and so it comes as a surprise that sport was very popular with non-elite citizens of the classical period, who rewarded victorious sportsmen lavishly and created an unrivalled program of local sporting festivals on which they spent staggering sums of money. They also shielded sportsmen from the public criticism which was otherwise normally directed towards the elite and its conspicuous activities. This book is a bold and novel exploration of this apparent contradiction, which examines three of the fundamental aspects of Athens in the classical period - democratic politics, public commitment to sport and constant warfare - and is essential reading for all of those who are interested in Greek sport, Athenian democracy and its waging of war"--